Dr. Fatema Hamodi

:Academic Appointments
2025-2026 External Lecturer, Department of Physics, Braude College
2024-2025 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University
Teaching Experience
2025 – today – Ort Braude College, undergraduate courses: Physics 2
Teaching assistant for Physics 1, Physics 2, Introduction to Physics
2020-2023 – Department of Physics Bar-Ilan University, Undergraduate teaching assistant in:
• General Physics 1 (2020-2023)
• General Physics 2 (2022)
• General Physics for Chemists A (2023)
• General Physics for Chemists B (2021-2022)
2021 – Bar Ilan University, Lecturer for a preparatory course in Physics – Mechanics and Electricity
2018-2019 – Lecturer for "Introduction to Physics – Mechanics" MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in Arabic.

2015-2021 – Bar Ilan University, Instructor – Led physics reinforcement workshops for students in the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University, as part of the Social Involvement Program
2017-2019 – Instructor –for outstanding high school female students as part of the "Future Scientists" program by Branco Weiss
2013 – Substitute Teacher at Al-Razi Elementary School in Bu'eine Nujeidat.

2021-2023 The Council of Higher Education (CHE-VATAT) Scholarship for outstanding Doctoral Students from the Arab Society; 62,000 NIS per academic year, awarded for up to three years
2019-2020 Recipient of the President's Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students in Physics, Bar-Ilan; 48,000 NIS per academic year
2019 Recipient of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA) Excellence Scholarship; 14000 NIS
2018-2019 Ilan Ramon Scholarship for Doctoral Students; 5000 NIS
2018 Selected by The Marker Magazine for the "40 Under 40" list of Israel’s most promising young individuals
2015-2017 The Council for Higher Education in Israel – Scholarship Fund for Excellent Arab Israeli Masters; 40,880 NIS per year
2013-2015 Nanotechnology Excellence Program Awarded to undergraduate science students based on outstanding Bagrut and Psychometric exam scores in the first year, with continued recognition for academic excellence over the following two years. The program included full tuition coverage and an annual stipend of 12,000 NIS.

Articles in Refereed Journals
Published

1. Yudkin, Y., Hamodi-Gzal, F. & Khaykovich, L. Going Beyond the Two-Channel Model: Systematic Approach to Multi-Channel Momentum-Space Contact-Interactions Models. Few-Body Systems 67, 5 (2025). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00601-025-02024-5
2. Elbaz, R., Hamodi-Gzal, F., Priel, N., Gzal, M. O. & Khaykovich, L. Permanent magnet-based Zeeman slower for lithium atoms. Review of Scientific Instruments 96, 123203 (2025).https://pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/article/96/12/123203/3374505
3. Hamodi-Gzal, F. & Khaykovich, L. Effect of Background Scattering on Efimov Scenario for Overlapping Narrow Feshbach Resonances. Few-Body Systems 65, 73 (2024).https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00601-024-01943-z
4. Hamodi-Gzal, F. & Khaykovich, L. Extracting atoms one by one from a small matter-wave soliton .Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 53, 055301 (2020).https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6455/ab5e41/meta

In preparation
5. Hamodi-Gzal, F. & Khaykovich, L. Three-body recombination of 〖Li〗^7 atoms in the vicinity of zero crossing of the two-body scattering length. (2026).